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Show 'RINGSIDE ACCOUNT OF EVENTS AT DAYTON AS NOMINEE IS NOTIFIED FAIRGROUNDS. DAYTON, Q . AUg ,7 Governor James M Cox today re-1 re-1 reived and accepted formally the Democratic Dem-ocratic presidential nomination. With Goxernor Cox and his running mate, Ft inklln D. Kooscvclt, marching march-ing at the head of the parade thousands thous-ands of Democracy's leads re and followers fol-lowers gathered at l lie fairground shi ine and heard the candidate outline his campaign. This h. bat-d on se. urlng peac by staunch adherence to the league of nu- tions with Interpretations" restainlng Its fundamental principles and not by what he declared the dishonorable Republican plan for a separate peace with Germans . on the league is.sno nnd generally the Democratic standard bearer declared de-clared he presented to the American people a choice between Demociatlc progress and reaetionarv Republicanism Republican-ism Prohibition was mentioned only by inference In a strong declaration for low enforcement The governor. urK ratification of woman suffrage and advocated mam reforms, including tax deduction and economy In government i the eleventh hour, the governor 'l elded not to issue the Insert he had plumed for his acceptance address. DEM N K ts CHI I R Bearing flags and dedked In ban-neri, ban-neri, thousands of cheering Democrats escorted him to the fairgrounds A warm sun bathed the fairgrounds crowd, d. spelling the danger of early i morning rains, but brought a soggy w ie of humidity which marie a shirt isleeve crowd of marchers and spectators specta-tors Most of the visitors came from Ohlq but thousands others came from I other states It was nearly 2:.t0 before the head nf the part.v reached the grounds Encs. steps and mils of the amplthea-tre amplthea-tre were crowded long before the parol' par-ol' arrived and the sun swelled the, receipts of the soft drink venders although al-though the heat was relieved somewhat some-what by a breeze which kept flag and banners fluttering, MU- COX THERE UDrs, Cox and Mrs. Roosevelt, the! governor's daughter, Mrs. D. J. Ma-honey Ma-honey with relatives and other friends of the candidate occupied a large box directly across the pi ess section from the speaker's stand Other boxes held Democratic notables Gore. To' one side of the spc ker'o stand was sealed the notification committee and to the rear the Democratic national committee. Moving pictures and other cameras were perched at numerous vantage points I There were thousands of "rail bird"; spectators lining the race track fence and around ihe track was a bla k 1 border of parked automobiles A mighty roar went up as the para'le began Its march down the race track1 to the strains of "Ohio" played by the Cox bund," of San Francisco WAN ES HIS II AT The governor stepped up to tho speaker's stand and waved his hat otj the ampltheaire. Standing barehead.l ed, the governor and Mr. Roosevolt ' received the marchers, waving thclrl hiinds and shouting occasionally to friends they recognized Also In the n viewing stand were Chairman White' of ihe national committee and Gilbert Ccx, 8", father of the presidential ICS ndldate. The Cox boosters at the front of the line received an especlallj heart', reception. The Guffy club of Pittsburg ::rn d White umhrclla". Most of the delegations had their own bands and between them and the Cox band which was stationed by the speakers stand there was an almost : continuous flow of melody BAN N I Its ( 1RR1ED Innumerable legends were on ban-J ban-J tiers carried by the marchers. A Milwaukee Mil-waukee contingent said I "A vote that will make Mllwaul.ee tamous Cox 1)9 1-2 per cent., Harding Hard-ing 1 - 2 of 1 per cent.'' Aboul a hundred miners from 'he ! Cambridge, Ohio, coal district drew a 'big wave of applause when they appeared ap-peared In working clothes and tafet 'head lamps "Jimmy Cox the friend Of the miners" wns on their banners. ! The first woman's delegation in line, a Cincinnati division received extra waves from the pasb hoard fan "f the governor and Mr. Roosevelt A salvo of applause was given the marchers from Marlon, SenAtor Harding's Hard-ing's home Thev- were led by 150 wom-n and sarrled a banner dei iiring "We're here Jimmy all from nar-jlon.' nar-jlon.' Another said "No, Cox never played a horn and he won't plav second sec-ond fiddle to any senate bunch." The governor got several laughs out of tun banner-, which Included the state-jment: state-jment: ' V little too warm on the front i porch." r.m of women Cleremont county, ohio. pilgrims i 'carried a b.mio i burning the honor of being the flsi Cox club b organization, j July 6. at 4 p m. .-.fter the flash came from San Francisco. The) received an extra tribute. The crowd cheered the uniformed band composed of women from Akron. O. A truck of girl shoe workers from Cincinnati drew more cheers. Ixing cheering greeted Senator Rob-! Inson's denunciation of Republican, senators f"r their ' nagging attacks Oil President llson and his charge that they had blocked peace "That's the stuff,' was 6houted. When he declared that the peace ' treat must br ratified, ' more, ap-plausi ap-plausi ..line Other cheers followed his opposition to "a reactionary" presl-denl presl-denl The crowd la.iirhed and cheered when he predicted Governor Cox would carry the fight to the Republl-ii Republl-ii and not have a front porch campaign cam-paign Governor Cox was given an oration nt 4:40 The governors first cheer was given his declaration that he took up the pemocratlc standard 'a free man.' Laughter and applause greeted greet-ed his statement that this was ' no time for wobbling," but for straight talking and acting. Governor Cox's praise of the clarity of the Democra platform brought another cheer and his flagellation of Republican senators for their treaty course received frequent expressions of approval. It was 6:20 o clock when the governor gover-nor concluded his address. Ho was1 given another ovation. Severa- thoue-and thoue-and spectators remained to the end |